Modern football continues to change, but not everyone is happy with it. Analyst Filip Joos believes that the game sometimes goes too far and puts forward a striking idea.
Football is an evolving sport. Coaches try to innovate every week and bigger changes are creeping in step by step. Filip Joos sees that this does not always benefit football and brings up a striking idea.
“I thought of Pellegrini, the coach of Betis. I think he is 76 years old, so he is a big, wise, old man. He said that once you are in the opponent’s half, you are no longer allowed to return to your own half. He thinks it is time for that, and I think it is correct,” says Joos on the 90 Minutes podcast.
Food for thought
“Now you’re just changing the sport,” Denis Odoi agrees. “It’s about time, because the sport has changed because of all those pipos who always pass the ball back and forth,” Joos retorts, but Odoi is not yet completely convinced.
“Football has changed because Guardiola was so dominant with that type of football. Everyone started playing that then,” says the NAC Breda wing defender. “Okay, but we can find that boring, right? And many teams can’t play like that,” Joos answers.
Odoi states that everything depends on results, but Joos does not agree with that either. “No, with the audience that likes to watch your sport.” Odoi also points out that big teams such as Barcelona or Manchester City can achieve great things in this way.
“Yes, sometimes chapeau, that’s not what I mean. I have more problems with teams that try to imitate it and can’t,” Joos concludes. Is it an idea worth thinking about?
